MARIAH CAREY PERFORMED DURING NEW YEAR'S EVE AND OF COURSE
THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF HUBBUB ABOUT HER PERFORMANCE
BECAUSE THE FACT THAT SHE JUST COMPLETELY STOPPED
PERFORMING IN THE MIDDLE.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO SHOW YOU THE VIDEO BUT IT IS ALL OVER THE
INTERNET SO FEEL FREE TO CHECK IT OUT AFTER YOU WATCH THIS
VIDEO, BUT I WILL DESCRIBE IT FOR THOSE OF YOU DON'T WANT
TO LOOK IT UP.
SHE IS SUPPOSED TO SING, AND I GUESS THE ORIGINAL PLAN WAS FOR
HER TO LIP-SYNCH AND THAT DID NOT OCCUR BECAUSE THE MUSIC IN
QUESTION WAS THE INSTRUMENTAL VERSION WITHOUT THE VOCALS.
YOU CAN PERCENT TO BE ONE OF THE INSTRUMENTS I GUESS,
BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME.
SHE KIND OF TRIED IT FIRST AND THEN REALIZED THAT IT
WAS THE WRONG MUSIC AND THEN JUST KIND OF GAVE UP AND
SEEMED PRETTY ANNOYED BY IT.
HER PUBLICIST TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE WAS NOTHING SHE COULD DO TO CONTINUE
WITH THE PERFORMANCE GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
SOME OF YOU MIGHT ARGUE YEAH, SHE COULD HAVE SAYING WHICH
IS WHAT SINGERS ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
THE SHE KNOW THE SONGS?
LOOK, THE REALITY IS MARIAH CAREY, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
HER BEING OLDER, IT HAS TO DO WITH DECADES OF USING HER VOCAL
CHORDS IN A WAY THAT STRAINS THEM BEYOND BELIEF AND SO I
DON'T KNOW SHE HAS THE ABILITY TO SING THE WAY SHE USED TO
DIE KNOW SHE WASN'T INCREDIBLE SINGER IN HER HEYDAY BUT
THAT KIND OF SINGING DOES DAMAGE HER VOCAL CHORDS.
WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF STATE HER VOCAL CHORDS ARE IN NOW.
WITH THAT SAID, ACCORDING TO THE AP THE PUBLICIST SAID THAT
CARRIES AIR PEERS WASN'T WORKING AND SHE FLAGGED THE ISSUE
TO THE PROTECTION SEEM BUT WAS TOLD IT WOULD BE OKAY WHEN
SHE GOT ON STAGE.
IF HER EARPIECE WASN'T WORKING AND SHE COULDN'T
HEAR THAT SHE WASN'T SINGING.
SHE'S TOTALLY UNAWARE.
HIM GETTING SONICARE, MY SINGING OR NOT?
I DO FIND IT INTERESTING THAT NOW THEY EAT EARPIECES THE
SCAPEGOAT FOR ISSUES THOUGHT IT HAPPENED WITH TRUMP DURING
HIS CAMPAIGN, IT'S HAPPENING WITH RIGHT CAREY WITH THIS
WHOLE ISSUE.
WITH HAD BAD EARPIECES, WE UNDERSTAND.
HER TEAM HAS BLAMED DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS FOR SABOTAGING
HER THAT
IS TO TRUMP BLAMED 2.
THEY ARE DENYING IT.
DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS SAY THAT AS THE PREMIER PRODUCER OF WHY
TELEVISION EVIDENCE FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS, WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON
OUR REPUTATION AND LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ARTIST.
TO SUGGEST THAT DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS WHATEVER
INTENTIONALLY COMPROMISE THE SUCCESS OF ANY ARTIST IS
DEFAMATORY, OUTRAGEOUS AND FRANKLY ABSURD.
I JUST THOUGHT THIS WHOLE THING WAS KIND OF FASCINATING AND
I THINK EVERYONE NEEDS TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND THEIR
EXPECTATIONS OR LOWER THEIR EXPECTATIONS OF CERTAIN
ARTISTS TO HAVE BEEN IN THE GAME FOR AS LONG AS MY CAREY HASS.
I'M NOT DOING THIS TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR HER, BUT SHE
PROBABLY CAN'T SING THE WAY THAT SHE USED TO DOUBT THERE IS
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
ESPECIALLY NIGHT AFTER NIGHT GUYS SEEM SILLY, BUT SHE
WAS A GREAT SINGER.
IT WEARS DOWN ON YOU, YOU CAN'T
SING ANYMORE BUT PEOPLE STILL - ONE THING, ANOTHER
OBVIOUS THING IS TO SAY SHE JUST WANTS THE MONEY ENOUGH
WHERE SHE’S LIP-SYNCHING BUT PEOPLE WANT TO SEE HER.
PEOPLE LOVE SEEING HER SING.
IT'S A PERFORMANCE.
IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT SINGING, IT'S THE
ENTIRE PERFORMANCE.
BRITNEY SPEARS DANCES BUT THERE IS A PERFORMANCE ELEMENT
TO IT.
WHAT BOTHERS ME IS WHEN 22-YEAR-OLD BRITNEY SPEARS
IS LIP-SYNCHING AT A CONCERT.
GRANTED SHE'S DANCING AND I
KNOW IT'S TOUGH, BUT THE REASON, I DON'T BLAME HER SHE HAD A
LITTLE WITH ASHLEE SIMPSON ON SNL GOING ON, WHEN PEOPLE SEE
THIS SORT OF CURTAIN FALL DOWN AND THEY SEE WHAT'S ACTUALLY
BEHIND THERE, IT'S LIKE WHEN WE CRITICIZE PEOPLE IN CABLE NEWS.
IF THEIR TELEPROMPTER LOCKED UP FOR 10 SECONDS THEY WOULD
BE LIKE A DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS AND NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE SUSPECT THAT UNDERNEATH THE GLOSS AND
THE VENEER IN THE PREPARATION THERE IS NOTHING REALLY
THERE AND I AM NOTHING THAT IS TRUE MARIAH CAREY, BUT WHEN
THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN PEOPLE THINK THAT IS WHAT THEY SEE.
DECIDED IS ALL JUST SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
THERE IS NOTHING TO THESE PEOPLE.
THEY ARE ACTORS THAT DON'T REALLY HAVE OPINIONS.
MAYBE SOME OF THEM DON'T REALLY HAVE TALENT.
I DIDN’T SAY SHE DIDN'T HAVE TALENT.
I AM NOT SAYING THAT.
I KNOW, BUT I FELT REALLY BAD FOR HER AND I KNOW IT IS HARD TO
TURN DOWN THE MONEY, BUT IF I WERE IN HER SHOES I PROBABLY
WOULD BE MORE HESITANT TO BE A HEADLINE PERFORMER SEDATE
SUCH A HUGE EVENT.
I'M SURE SHE FEELS TERRIBLE AND SHE IS EMBARRASSED BUT JUST
COME OUT AND SAY IT.
JUST BE HONEST ABOUT THE SITUATION AND I KNOW THAT
IS ALSO VERY DIFFICULT AND NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT THINK
ABOUT HER HIGH-PITCHED SINGING FOR YEARS.
YOU ARE DESTROYING YOUR VOCAL CORDS.
THAT IS JUST THE WAY GOES.
PEOPLE'S VOICES CHANGE.
MY VOICE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS HAS CHANGED CONSIDERABLY.
IT'S STILL NASALLY AS HELL BUT YOUR VOICE CHANGES.
THAT'S WHY I WORRY WHEN PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF ONLY GONE
RANTS BUT AFTER 10 OR 20 YEARS OF STARTS TO WEAR YOU OUT.
I'M REALLY CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT CENK UYGUR'S VOICE IS
GOING TO BE LIKE IN ANOTHER 10 YEARS THAT
THE GODFATHER.
ONE FINAL POINT ABOUT THE STORY.
THERE ARE ALLEGATIONS BY AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE INDICATING THAT
EVERYONE WHO PERFORMED DURING THIS EVENT REHEARSED AND
SHE REFUSED TO DO SO.
SHE HAD A STAND-IN FOR HER REHEARSAL.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS TRUE.
IS AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE BUT IF THAT IS THE CASE, THAT WAS
A REALLY DUMB MOVE.